Shelley Harris
@shelleyharris.bsky.social
Writer (JUBILEE and VIGILANTE, W&N), Creative Writing lecturer at the University of Reading. Dogs, food and various forms of anguish.
The general right-wing freakout about London as a multicultural city doesn’t stand up very well to … an actual awareness of history, does it? This twelfth-century text (William fitzStephen’s biography of Thomas Becket) sees it as part of what makes the city thrive.
September 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The general right-wing freakout about London as a multicultural city doesn’t stand up very well to … an actual awareness of history, does it? This twelfth-century text (William fitzStephen’s biography of Thomas Becket) sees it as part of what makes the city thrive.
Please enjoy my mother-in-law’s painting, which I like to call ‘Man with Levitating Cat’.
August 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Please enjoy my mother-in-law’s painting, which I like to call ‘Man with Levitating Cat’.
Yeah, not quite what I expected when a human rights lawyer became PM. Thought he might mind a bit more about genocide, but OK yeah, yeah , cool.
August 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Yeah, not quite what I expected when a human rights lawyer became PM. Thought he might mind a bit more about genocide, but OK yeah, yeah , cool.
Unexpectedly beautiful pommes dauphinoise prep making me think of Whoopi Goldberg.
August 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Unexpectedly beautiful pommes dauphinoise prep making me think of Whoopi Goldberg.
It was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2021, and in theory is … somewhere on the website…? You’re welcome to read it in teeny tiny point size below, though.
August 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2021, and in theory is … somewhere on the website…? You’re welcome to read it in teeny tiny point size below, though.
Are we meant to consider this a big leap?
July 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Are we meant to consider this a big leap?
I think there are only a few centres nationwide - and one is in the town where I work.
July 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I think there are only a few centres nationwide - and one is in the town where I work.
@isabelrogers.bsky.social Donating plasma. Look at this beauty. (Mint Club also available.)
July 16, 2025 at 9:15 AM
@isabelrogers.bsky.social Donating plasma. Look at this beauty. (Mint Club also available.)
Happy solstice! (I’m at a cocktail bar on an iron age hillfort).
June 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Happy solstice! (I’m at a cocktail bar on an iron age hillfort).
This is the dedication.
June 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is the dedication.
Allow me to wholeheartedly recommend this book, written by a German-American jew who embedded himself in post-war German society to learn about how ordinary people came to support the unthinkable.
Yes, there are of course multiple analogies with what we’re seeing in the US right now. /
Yes, there are of course multiple analogies with what we’re seeing in the US right now. /
June 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Allow me to wholeheartedly recommend this book, written by a German-American jew who embedded himself in post-war German society to learn about how ordinary people came to support the unthinkable.
Yes, there are of course multiple analogies with what we’re seeing in the US right now. /
Yes, there are of course multiple analogies with what we’re seeing in the US right now. /
I wonder a lot whether ICE members realise they’re the Gestapo. I know we all think we’re the hero, but I wonder whether there’s something troubling for any of them, glimpsed out of the corner of their eye.
June 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I wonder a lot whether ICE members realise they’re the Gestapo. I know we all think we’re the hero, but I wonder whether there’s something troubling for any of them, glimpsed out of the corner of their eye.
A small dog, taking up space in the world. Proud of her.
May 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A small dog, taking up space in the world. Proud of her.
Windows 95 chime composer.
May 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Windows 95 chime composer.
Tell me you’ve read Ozymandias without telling me etc etc.
May 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Tell me you’ve read Ozymandias without telling me etc etc.
She helped water the garden.
May 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
She helped water the garden.
I’ve started reading Milton Mayer’s ‘They Thought They Were Free’ and 🤯. Mayer (a German-Jewish American) embedded himself in postwar German society for two years, to learn why / how ordinary Germans supported Hitler so fervently. The screenshot is from his introduction.
May 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I’ve started reading Milton Mayer’s ‘They Thought They Were Free’ and 🤯. Mayer (a German-Jewish American) embedded himself in postwar German society for two years, to learn why / how ordinary Germans supported Hitler so fervently. The screenshot is from his introduction.
@isabelrogers.bsky.social Girl, why can’t I read this without thinking of you?
May 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
@isabelrogers.bsky.social Girl, why can’t I read this without thinking of you?